The Conceptual Understanding of Prospective Teachers of Economic Education on Basic Natural Science Through Project-Based Learning Approach

Abstract

This research aims at determining the relationship between conceptual understanding and the quality of the product through project-based learning in the basic natural science course. This is a quantitative descriptive research with the design of pre-experimental design type on one-shot case study. The population of this research is all students of economic education in the 2nd semester with the number of 175 students (divided into three classes). The purposive sampling technique selected one class as the sample, which was class B with 58 students. The instrument of this research is a concept assessment appraisal sheet with product quality assessment using the rating scale model. Based on the calculations, the average value was 3.4 with 82% of students categorized as good. Moreover, the assessment of product quality had an average score of 3.8 with 94% of students categorized as excellent. Thus, a good process will produce a good result or a good conceptual understanding. It is directly related to the product of students.